Re: sudo in general, and not requiring password in particular (was Re: trouble adding my user to sudoers list)

2024-07-03 Thread Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss
Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss said on Wed, 03 Jul 2024 06:21:25 -0700 > > >On 2024-07-02 18:20, George Toft via PLUG-discuss wrote: >> I work for a bank, and you would be amazed at how much security is >> baked into the connecting your browser to their web servers. Makes >> the NSA look like fresh

Re: sudo in general, and not requiring password in particular (was Re: trouble adding my user to sudoers list)

2024-07-03 Thread George Toft via PLUG-discuss
Thanks for the explanation - no argument here. I was hoping for a link from RH that I could pass on to my Staff Architect. Right now I'm battling the next three layers of manglement above me "to please OMG don't try to convert back to sudo." I have layer #1 mostly convinced. Silly managers thin

Re: sudo in general, and not requiring password in particular (was Re: trouble adding my user to sudoers list)

2024-07-03 Thread George Toft via PLUG-discuss
Regards, George Toft On 7/3/2024 5:57 AM, techli...@phpcoderusa.com wrote: On 2024-07-02 19:05, George Toft via PLUG-discuss wrote: Okay, I now come begging for more information on why RH thinks sudo is bad. But first a little background... Where I work, the first thing we do is remove s

Re: sudo in general, and not requiring password in particular (was Re: trouble adding my user to sudoers list)

2024-07-03 Thread George Toft via PLUG-discuss
I did say "not naming vendor." Trade secret. We don't discuss our vendors. Sorry, Mike. Regards, George Toft On 7/3/2024 4:37 AM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote: can you share with usw what you use instead of sudo? On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 11:42 PM George Toft via PLUG-discuss wrote: O

Re: sudo in general, and not requiring password in particular (was Re: trouble adding my user to sudoers list)

2024-07-03 Thread George Toft via PLUG-discuss
Sorry, Kieth, I have bad news for you. You took a 30+ year leap backwards in security. I can tell you for certain, from my bank fraud analyst friend (just got promoted to financial crimes investigator), checks are the second most insecure way of transferring money, first being putting the mone

Re: sudo in general, and not requiring password in particular (was Re: trouble adding my user to sudoers list)

2024-07-03 Thread Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss
> I personally detest sudo because it's like chmod 777 * - makes > everything work so much better Please, please, PLEASE! I beg of you! Please do not chmod 777 stuff! This is even worse! You're just allowing all users to modify said files tearing down any kind of privilege separation there migh

Re: I love AI and linux!

2024-07-03 Thread greg zegan via PLUG-discuss
Sad but true all on the march "Forward" to Singularity where you will be redeemed from your Earthly sin by AI.Mark Zuckerberg confirmed recently AI engineers are working on trying to replace God.Mark Zuckerberg Says AI Competitors Think They Are 'Creating God' | | | | | | | | | | |

Re: I love AI and linux!

2024-07-03 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
We are tracked more than we know. Facebook endeavors to know everything about us. We are tracked by our cellular phones. Our credit card purchases are tracked. Google tracks us maybe down to the MAC address I understand our home insurance provide is using drones to look into our back ya

Re: I love AI and linux!

2024-07-03 Thread Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss
Unsure, but I bought into the "Google Apps" stack way back in 2010, so I resigned the fact that Google owns me anyway. Never been terribly concerned with "being tracked" as I take all the "IT Admin Common Sense" step to keep myself safe online. -- Thanks, Alexander Sent from my Google Pixel 7 Pro

Re: sudo in general, and not requiring password in particular (was Re: trouble adding my user to sudoers list)

2024-07-03 Thread rusty via PLUG-discuss
Let me start by apologizing here - I'm feeling a bit silly... how about 'becomeroot' or 'iwannaplaygod' or 'rootme' or maybe even 'meroot' or 'beroot' Yeah, sorry, but remember I did apologize first! ;-) And, of course, DON'T POST what you made it! On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 07:59, Michael via P

Re: I love AI and linux!

2024-07-03 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
On 2024-07-03 12:00, Snyder, Alexander J wrote: Regarding being logged in ... I subscribe to the paid "Teams" version. It gets us all the newest features, and also includes the "memory". I tell it to "remember" or "update your memory" for XYZ thing, and it does. Like it will only tell me thin

Re: I love AI and linux!

2024-07-03 Thread Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss
Regarding being logged in ... I subscribe to the paid "Teams" version. It gets us all the newest features, and also includes the "memory". I tell it to "remember" or "update your memory" for XYZ thing, and it does. Like it will only tell me things compatible in Python 3.10 or newer, or that I pref

Re: I love AI and linux!

2024-07-03 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
Mike, I take it you are logged in to ChatGPT? Most of the time I am using ChatGPT I am NOT logged in. I wonder if it make a difference. Interesting information you have uncovered Mike. Keith On 2024-07-03 09:02, Michael wrote: look what ai just told me: how long do you remember chats

Re: I love AI and linux!

2024-07-03 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
look what ai just told me: how long do you remember chats I retain information shared during the current chat session for context. However, when you end a session, the specific details of our conversation aren't retained for the next session, except for any information you've explicitly asked me

Fwd: I love AI and linux!

2024-07-03 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
this is what ai says about rm -rf * -me- would you ever advise me to do it No, I would never advise you to run the rm -rf /* command. It is extremely destructive and would result in the deletion of nearly all files on your system, rendering it unusable and leading to significant data loss. This c

Re: VirtualBox, Proxmox, QEMU and CPU Vs vCPUs

2024-07-03 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Openshift is a RHEL implementation of Kubernetes and container management. and a stack of tools that all work together. For certain workloads, containers are a fantastic way to go. And VMware HAs been Gutted by Broadcom. On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 7:42 PM Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss < plug-

Re: I love AI and linux!

2024-07-03 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
That is cool Mike. Thank you for sharing. I've been using ChatGPT for PHP programming. On 2024-07-03 07:33, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote: If you remember correctly my CMOS battery is dead. I got around that by creating a cronjob that would set the clock via the ntp pool. Now I turn the int

Re: HTML, CSS and PHP

2024-07-03 Thread Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss
Each is their own separate thing, and they do that thing. They are often used together because they are very complimentary. On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 7:27 PM Steve Litt via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > This is a question for our resident PHP expert Keith Smith

Re: I love AI and linux!

2024-07-03 Thread Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss
I'm very glad you've found success with it. A word of caution ... As someone who also leans on A.I. for help with technology, don't just blindly assume it knows what it's doing. I'm trying to learn Python better and I'll ask ChatGPT how to do things and sometimes it'll just invent a thing to do in

Re: I love AI and linux!

2024-07-03 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
I also only connect my desktop via ethernet and it was continuously asking me for the wifi password at startup. CHATGPT showed me how to shut that off! On Wed, Jul 3, 2024 at 10:33 AM Michael wrote: > If you remember correctly my CMOS battery is dead. I got around that by > creating a cronjob th

I love AI and linux!

2024-07-03 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
If you remember correctly my CMOS battery is dead. I got around that by creating a cronjob that would set the clock via the ntp pool. Now I turn the internet off every night. I used to wait until the internet was fully up until I would turn my computer on.But now I got it to check every 1/2 second

Re: sudo in general, and not requiring password in particular (was Re: trouble adding my user to sudoers list)

2024-07-03 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
On 2024-07-02 18:20, George Toft via PLUG-discuss wrote: I work for a bank, and you would be amazed at how much security is baked into the connecting your browser to their web servers. Makes the NSA look like freshmen. And no, I'm not telling you who I work for. Regards, George Toft I'd l

Re: sudo in general, and not requiring password in particular (was Re: trouble adding my user to sudoers list)

2024-07-03 Thread Keith Smith via PLUG-discuss
On 2024-07-02 19:05, George Toft via PLUG-discuss wrote: Okay, I now come begging for more information on why RH thinks sudo is bad. But first a little background... Where I work, the first thing we do is remove sudo and replace it with a shell script that calls our centralized Privileged Ac

Re: sudo in general, and not requiring password in particular (was Re: trouble adding my user to sudoers list)

2024-07-03 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
I've figured out how I'm going to secure my system. I will link sudo to another command and then create an alias for sudo that will echo something like, 'Sudo has been disabled,' if I forget. Now I need suggestions on what to use. Chat gpt suggests supersudo but that's too long. What do you all thi

Re: sudo in general, and not requiring password in particular (was Re: trouble adding my user to sudoers list)

2024-07-03 Thread Michael via PLUG-discuss
can you share with usw what you use instead of sudo? On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 11:42 PM George Toft via PLUG-discuss < plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote: > Okay, I now come begging for more information on why RH thinks sudo is > bad. But first a little background... > > Where I work, the first

Re: VirtualBox, Proxmox, QEMU and CPU Vs vCPUs

2024-07-03 Thread Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss
> At Digital Ocean they sell resources in vCPUs and GBs of RAM. I think > AWS does the same. It depends on whether you're buying "shared" or "dedicated" CPUs. Unless they explicitly specify dedicated, then the "vCPUs" you're getting are just that, virtual cpus which are scheduled by the host o